XXVI.—A Monograph on the general Morphology of the Myxinoid Fishes, based on a study of Myxine. Part II. The Anatomy of the Muscles.

Abstract

The first part of this work was published in theTransactionsof the Society for 1905, when the present section was promised by the end of the same year. But the labour of revising the whole work on the sections and of posting all the muscles in the extensive series of key sections along with the skeleton has been much greater than was anticipated, and hence the delay. This labour, however, is amply repaid by the knowledge that one is now in a unique position for studying the blood-vessels and nerves; for not only has every fraction of the skeleton and muscles been microscopically explored, but the information obtained is immediately and completely available on reference to the key sections. When the whole work is completed and all the systems have been entered in these sections, I hope to obtain a grant to enable me to publish them as an atlas. As far as I am aware, no animal has been studied throughout in this way before.